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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was music incarnate from earliest childhood. At three he picked out chords on the clavier; at five he composed; at six he toured Europe with his sister, playing for emperors and kings. His father Leopold, a capable musician himself, recognized the prodigy and exploited it, a source of both Mozart's early success and lifelong complications.
The child grew into a young man who could write a symphony in a coach, an opera in weeks, a piano concerto while the ink was still drying on the previous page. He settled in Vienna, broke with his father, married against his family's wishes, and struggled constantly with money despite producing more masterpieces than most composers manage in lifetimes twice as long.
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- 1756Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg on 27 January 1756 and trained as a child prodigy by his father Leopold.
- 1773From 1773 he was a court musician to Salzburg's ruler, Prince-Archbishop Hieronymus Colloredo.
- 1781Dismissed by his Salzburg employers in 1781, he settled in Vienna and married Constanze Weber there on 4 August 1782.
- 1786His opera Le nozze di Figaro premiered successfully in Vienna in 1786.
- 1787His opera Don Giovanni premiered to acclaim in Prague in October 1787.
- 1791He died at his home in Vienna on 5 December 1791, aged 35, with his Requiem unfinished.
- 1791In 1791 he wrote the opera Die Zauberflöte, his last piano concerto and the Clarinet Concerto.
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Wars during this life
- American Revolutionary War
- Seven Years' War
- British Conquest of Bengal
- Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)
- Sino-Burmese War
- Bar Confederation & First Partition of Poland
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Primary Sources
- Operas, symphonies, concertos
- Letters of Mozart
- Requiem fragments
- Reference profile for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Further Reading
- Mozart: A Life - Maynard Solomon
- The Classical Style - Charles Rosen
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Who was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was music incarnate from earliest childhood. At three he picked out chords on the clavier; at five he composed; at six he toured Europe with his sister, playing for emperors and kings. His father Leopold, a capable musician himself, recognized the prodigy and exploited it, a source of both Mozart's early success and lifelong complications. The child grew into a young man who could write a symphony in a coach, an opera in weeks, a piano concerto while the ink was still drying on the previous page. He settled in Vienna, broke with his father, married against his family's wishes, and struggled constantly with money despite producing more masterpieces than most composers manage in lifetimes twice as long.
What was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart best known for?
Mozart is best known as a artist. Austrian composer whose operas and instrumental works crystallized classical form with expressive brilliance
When did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart live?
Mozart lived 1756-1791 CE, born in 1756 and died in 1791, during the early modern period.
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